Marion Meade's previous biography subjects include Eleanor of Acquitane, Madame Blavatsky, Victoria Woodhull, Dorothy Parker, and Buster Keaton. (The Special Collections Department also has the research files for Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase.) Meade studied at Northwestern University and holds a Master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She has contributed articles to The New York Times and The Village Voice, in addition to writing two novels. She lives in New York City.

Research for the bookÂ Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eilleen McKenney.

Other achives by Marion Meade at the University of Iowa:
Buster Keaton
Woody Allen
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin